abstruse (s)
deep (s)
recondite (s)

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type s
lex_filenum 00
def difficult to penetrate
def incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
examples the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them
a deep metaphysical theory
some recondite problem in historiography
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Similar to esoteric
Derivationally related form recondite → reconditeness
Derivationally related form abstruse → abstrusity; abstruse → abstruseness
Derivationally related form abstruse → abstruseness
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Similar to esoteric
Derived from adjective abstrusely → abstruse
Derivationally related form reconditeness → recondite
Derivationally related form abstruseness → abstruse; abstrusity → abstruse
Derivationally related form abstruseness → abstruse

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